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German Toilets Having spent many a summer in Austria, and living next door to Germany, I'm one of many who's spent a not insignificant amount of brain-cycles wondering what the deal is with those useless toilets. Apparently I'm not alone :-) Whenever folks who
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Muniwireless MuniWireless is a website dedicated to municipal wireless installations. They have some great in-depths reports on the recent tests run in Paris, as well as good overviews of "hot cities".
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The Register: Agere designs wireless VoIP chipset Media attention is growing in the area of Voice over WiFi. Enabling Wireless PDA's or dedicated phone handsets to communicate via standard Voice-over-IP, would allow really low-cost, mobile telephony in the office, the warehouse or the home. One of the more
Gadgets
Almost simultaneous announcements of WiFi enebaled Digital Camera's from Nikon and Fuji. Fuji's is a 3 megapixel prototype, while Nikon's is a high-end sports-camera with a WiFi add-on. Both announcements via Gizmodo, the ultimate gadget-site. Gizmodo : Fuji's WiFi digital camera Gizmodo : It&
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Someone forwarded me this article from the BBC Online: BBC NEWS | Technology | World's poor to get own search engine Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine designed for people with a slow net connection. Someone using the software would e-mail a query
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Fortune.com - Fast Forward - Will Wi-Fi Revolutionize the Phone? Yet another article about the up-and-coming combination of WiFi and Voice-over-IP systems. This one from Fortune.com Again, a lot of people seem to agree that the cellular companies need to take the threat of really low-cost voice over
Free Software
O'Reilly Network: Linux on the Linksys [July 21, 2003] So, we've known for a while that Linksys 802.11g unit (the WRT54G) runs linux underneath the hood, and O'Reilly Network: Rob Flickenger [July 21, 2003] Rob FLickenger from Seattle wireless, and Author of the
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This is ridiculous. John Gilmore, a respected tech journalist, was refused on a BA flight, because he wouldn't remove a political message from a 1 inch button he was wearing on his lapel. This whole censorship in the name of anti-terrorism is reaching ridiculous proportions. Politech: John Gilmore:
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Peterstar to Invest USD 500,000 in Wi-Fi Hot Spots around St. Petersburg | RosbaltNews.COM It seems that PeterStar has a much more realistic view of WiFi pricing than most of the providers I've had the 'limited' pleasure of making contact with. According to this article,
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Tom's Hardware Guide Networking: Need-To-Know: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) - Introduction Tom's Hardware Guide takes an in-depth look at all that's new in the WiFi Alliances WPA (WiFi Protected Access) 'Standard'.
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Yesterday, I wrote this item about an article on BBC's news site relating to WiFi hype in a developing world context. Simon Woodside commented on my post, noting that Open Spectrum is NOT deregulation as such, but mere RE-regulation. Simon is of course 100% correct. There is a
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There's a new kid in town. This time it's a wireless standard emant specifically for long-haulm (or backbone) links. The standard is called IEEE 802.16, but the popular name seesm to be WiMAX. The idea is to create a technology that is designed for longer